Placebo announce 2027 South American tour to celebrate first two albums

Placebo have announced a 2027 tour of Latin America celebrating their first two albums, with shows across Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico.

The run forms part of the band’s ongoing 30th anniversary celebrations and will see Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal revisit material from their self-titled 1996 debut and 1998 follow-up ‘Without You I’m Nothing’, including tracks that have not regularly appeared in their live sets for years.

It begins at São Paulo’s Suhai Music Hall on February 20 before heading to Brasília, Curitiba and Porto Alegre. Shows in Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima and Bogotá follow in March, before the tour concludes with dates in Guadalajara and Monterrey.

Announcing the shows on Instagram, the band wrote: “We are very pleased to announce we will be returning to tour Latin America next year.”

In a video accompanying the announcement, Olsdal looked back at how the release of ‘Placebo’ marked the point at which the group began expanding beyond the London circuit.

“1996, when the album came out, that’s when we started to play shows outside of the UK,” he said. “Up until then, we did pubs, small venues, you know, the whole Camden circuit, Dublin Castle, etc. And for us, the world was much bigger than the UK. We never saw ourselves as a British band.”

The new dates continue the anniversary tour Placebo announced earlier this year , which is due to begin in Europe later this month. Those shows will similarly focus on the band’s first two records, bringing back early favourites such as ‘Nancy Boy’, ‘Teenage Angst’, ‘Pure Morning’ and ‘Every You Every Me’, as well as songs that have not been performed for more than 20 years.

The celebrations have also seen Placebo release ‘RE’ in June, a reworking of their 1996 debut built using the original master tapes.